COMPOSITION: ITEMS OF IMPROVEMENT



COMPOSITION ITEM EXAMPLES

Glory Review

|1. Which change should be made to correct sentence 2? |Objective: 6.02 |

|A. Change It to That |Thinking Skill: Analyzing |

|B. Change realistically to really |Difficulty Level: Easy |

|C. Change fear to fears | |

|D. Change all to every | |

|2. Which change should be made to correct sentence 3? |Objective: 6.02 |

|Change It’s to Its |Thinking Skill: Analyzing |

|B. Change touch to touches |Difficulty Level: Medium |

|C. Change every one to everyone | |

|D. Change lives to lifes | |

|3. Which change should be made to correct sentence 9? |Objective: 6.02 |

|Change the acting expressed to the acting expresses |Thinking Skill: Analyzing |

|B. Change emotions, and deep feelings to emotions and deep feelings |Difficulty Level: Medium |

|C. Change involved in to involving | |

|D. Change years to years’ | |

|4. Which change should be made to correct sentence 18? |Objective: 6.02 |

|Change These to This |Thinking Skill: Analyzing |

|B. Change none of the to the |Difficulty Level: Medium |

|C. Change story, to story; | |

|D. Change them to him | |

|5 (a). Which of the following is a fragment? |Objective: 6.02 |

|(7) Glory was historically accurate. |Thinking Skill: Applying |

|B. (11) The struggles of minorities to attain personal glory. |Difficulty Level: Medium |

|C. (16) Scenes like whippings and beatings of slaves disturbed me. | |

|D. (24) Therefore, if you want to feel the emotion and excitement of a truly| |

|terrific movie, go see the film Glory. | |

|5 (b). How could sentence 11 be written correctly? |Objective: 6.02 |

|A. Because of the struggles of minorities to attain personal glory. |Thinking Skill: Generating |

|B. The struggles of minorities to attain personal glory parallel modern conflicts. |Difficulty Level: Hard |

|C. Minorities struggles to attain personal glory. | |

|D. The struggles of minorities to attain personal glory in the face of great obstacles. | |

|6. How could sentences 5 and 6 best be combined to enhance conciseness and sentence variety? |Objective: 6.01 |

|A. Men struggling with the horrors of war and overcoming their fears make the film’s plot |Thinking Skill: Integrating |

|realistic. |Difficulty Level: Medium |

|B. The film had a realistic plot; it showed how men struggle with the horrors of war and how | |

|they are compelled to overcome their fears. | |

|C. Based on men struggling with the horrors of war, the film had a realistic plot, and it was | |

|about how they are compelled to overcome their fears. | |

|D. The realistic plot of the film was men struggling with the horrors of war and how they are | |

|compelled to overcome their fears. | |

|7. Which of the following improves the organization of the third paragraph? |Objective: 4.01 |

|A. Put sentence 15 after sentence 16 because sentence 15 brings closure to the paragraph. |Thinking Skill: Organizing |

|B. Put “on the other hand,” at the end of sentence 13 so the paragraph begins with the title of |Difficulty Level: Hard |

|the movie. | |

|C. Put “In addition,” at the beginning of sentence 16 to provide a better transition. | |

|Put a semicolon at the end of sentence 13 instead of a period to connect sentence 13 and sentence| |

|14. | |

|8. What effect does the student achieve in sentence 1 by using words such as compelling and |Objective: 4.02/6.01 |

|force? |Thinking Skill: Analyzing |

|A. They hint at the contrast within the movie. |Difficulty Level: Medium |

|B. They inspire fear. | |

|C. They convey a sense of power. | |

|They reveal the author’s negative opinion of the movie. | |

|9. In making a recommendation for audiences who would enjoy the film (paragraph 4), the writer |Objective: 4.01 |

|considered which of the following? |Thinking Skill: Analyzing |

|A. adventurous spirit of senior citizens |Difficulty Level: Medium |

|B. maturity of younger children | |

|C. popular culture of teens | |

|D. war experiences of veterans | |

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